Critical Thinking :- To Reduce Anxiety In Mathematics Among Students

Everybody may have different view and opinion about mathematics as subject. While some consider it interesting, challenging and innovative others consider it boring and tough some even try cramming it. Most of the students feel anxiety and become tense while learning mathematics. In order to reduce fear, anxiety among learners, we have to change the mindset of students and to induce liking for mathematics. For this process, the teaching methods has to evolve from traditional (in which the students sit and listen passively) to those which involve more active participation of students. To achieve this we teachers, have a great responsibility to influence teaching methodology such that the students develop reasoning, logic and rational thinking. One such method is critical thinking which we attempt to discuss in this paper.